ISTANBUL:394. Merian, M. ‘CONSTANTINOPOLIS’. Prospect of Istanbul from an elevated position with figures in the foreground. Merian ca. 1646 [20464] 23 x 69 cm. Explanations from 1 - 29 below. Excellent condition. £1450
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ISTANBUL:395. The Graphic. ‘PANORAMIC VIEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE’. Two magnificent views on one sheet, one from Stamboul looking over the Golden Horn and
Pera, the other of Constantinople and the Mouth of the Golden Horn looking from
Pera. A fascinating glimpse of Constantinople in the mid-nineteenth century. The Graphic 1876 [21528] 15 x 100 cm each.
Uncoloured. Issued as a supplement. Folded. Excellent condition. £400
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ISTANBUL:396. The Graphic. ‘PANORAMIC VIEWS OF CONSTANTINOPLE’. Two magnificent views on one sheet, one from Stamboul looking over the Golden Horn and
Pera, the other of Constantinople and the Mouth of the Golden Horn looking from
Pera. A fascinating glimpse of Constantinople in the mid-nineteenth century. The Graphic 1876 [24906] 15 x 100 cm each. Recently
coloured. Excellent condition. £500
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CYPRUS:398. Stanford, E. ‘CYPRUS’. A large detailed map of the Island of Cyprus at the very beginning of the 20th century. Scale: Five and a half English miles to one inch. A railway line has been laid between Famagusta and Nicosia, then continuing further west to the town of
Morphou. Christian villages and Muslim villages are seperately indicated. Edward Stanford ca. 1904 [21059] 46 x 61 cm. Full original
colour. Excellent condition. £300 Stylianou 224. |
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ISTANBUL:400. Schedel, H. ‘CONSTANTINOPOLIS’. Double-page panorama of Istanbul. Woodcut by Wilhelm Pleydenwurff & Michael Wohlgemut for Hartmann Schedel’s Liber Chronicarum (Nuremberg Chronicle), published in Nürnberg by Anton Koberger 1493 [24932] Image 23 x 52 cm, on full double text pages folium CXXIX /
CXXX. Full recent colour. Excellent condition. £1500
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ISTANBUL:401. Homann, J. B. ‘ACCURATE VORSTELLUNG DER ORIENTALISCH - KAYSERLICHEN
HAUPT- UND RESIDENZ-STADT CONSTANTINOPEL SAMT IHRER GEGEND...’. Very detailed and highly decorative map of Constantinopel and the
Bosphorus, with inset map of the Dardanelles in decorative framework, and a large prospect of Constantinopel (14 x 57 cm) below. Johann Baptist Homann ca. 1720 [22607] 49 x 57 cm. Recent outline
colour, the panorama and small inset map uncoloured. Laid on strong paper.
Very good condition. £750
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JERUSALEM:402. Fleischmann, A. C. ‘EIGENTLICHE VORSTELLUNG DER STATT JERUSALEM UND DERSELBEN UMLIEGENDEN GEGENDEN ZU SALOMONIS ...
ZEITEN’. Birds-eye view/plan of Jerusalem at the time of King Salomon with cartouche and table of explanations in German. Engraved by August Christian Fleischmann in Nuremberg ca. 1736 [23786] 35 x 40 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £250 From a German Bible by Martin Luther. There are later editions of this map omitting the engraver’s name. |
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PALESTINE:403. Ortelius, A. ‘TERRA SANCTA’. Map of Israel with pictorial cartouche, scale of miles and shipwreck scene with Jonas and the whale. North orientated to the left. Spanish text verso. Abraham Ortelius ca. 1588 [24181] 37 x 50 cm. Full original
colour, incl. cartouches. Excellent condition. £780 van der Broecke 173. |
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PALESTINE:404. Tirinus, J. / Belling, J. E. ‘CHOROGRAPHIA TERRAE SANCTAE IN ANGUSTIOREM FORMAM
REDACTA, ET EX VARIIS AUCTORIBUS A MULTIS ERRORIBUS EXPURGATA’. Map of the Holy Land, below and on both sides surrounded by numerous vignettes of temples, statues and religious objects, and oval plan of Old Jerusalem below
(‘Hierosolymae Veteris Imago’). North orientated to the left. Printed on two sheets and joined. Engraved in Augsburg by Joseph Erasmus Belling ca. 1650 [25051] 32 x 82 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £750 Uncommon. - Apparently a re-engraving with variations of an earlier map by Jacobus Tirinus (variously ascribed also to van
Adrichem) of ca. 1632. Belling is a little known mid 17th century engraver of
Ausgburg, not listed in Tooley’s or Laor. |
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PALESTINE:405. Visscher, N. ‘TERRA SANCTA SIVE
PROMISSIONIS, OLIM PALESTINA RECENS DELINEATA...’. Detailed map of the Holy Land, north orientated to the right. Nicolaas Visscher 1659 [22123] 46 x 56 cm. Title cartouche with putti and flower garlands, sailing ships, scale of miles and inset plan of the Tabernacle and ceremonial festivities (all uncoloured as issued), the map in original outline
colour. £650 Short tear to lower centrefold sometime rebacked, otherwise in very good condition. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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PALESTINE:406. Visscher, C. J. / D. Stoopendaal. ‘HET BELOOFDE LANDT CANAAN...’. Map of the Holy Land, north orientated to the right. Engraved by Abraham Broeck after Claes Janszon Visscher for the Nicolaas Visscher firm of Dutch publishers ca. 1690 [25614] 32 x 48 cm. Large cartouche, scale of miles and small cartouche of explanations. Four biblical scenes from Christ’s life along lower border. Full recent
colour. Occasional light spotting, vertical folds on the extreme right and left sides flattened, very good condition. £250 Published in a Dutch Bible. |
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PALESTINE:407. Sanson, N. / Jaillot, H. ‘JUDAEA SEU TERRA SANCTA QUAE HEBRAEORUM SIVE ISRAELITARUM TERRA, IN SUAS DUODECIM TRIBUS
DIVISA.....’. Large map of the Holy Land, divided into tribes, with two large decorative cartouches (title and scale of miles). Published by Hubert Jaillot from the plate by Nicolas Sanson 1691 [22125] 56 x 83 cm. Original outline
colour. £600 This is the much larger and more uncommon version of Jaillot’s Palestine map. Jaillot often published these maps separately. - Short tear to lower margin sometime rebacked, otherwise very good condition. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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PALESTINE:408. Sanson, G. ‘JUDAEA SEU TERRA SANCTA QUAE HEBRAEORUM SIVE ISRAELITARUM TERRA...’. Map of Palestine, showing the location of the various tribes, with figurative cartouche and scale of miles. Gulielmi Sanson ca. 1700 [23779] 49 x 58 cm. The map in full original
colour. Centrefold and verdigris cracks expertly strengthened veso, otherwise in good condition. £400 Guillaume Sanson was the son of Nicolas Sanson. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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PALESTINE:409. Aa, P. v. d. ‘TERRE SAINTE, SUIVANT LES NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS’. Map of Palestine with pictorial cartouche, depicting the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea with the waters parted. Pieter van der Aa, Leiden 1714 [25136] 23 x 30 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £175 Folio edition - no
centrefolds. |
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PALESTINE:411. Sanson, N. / Vaugondy, R. ‘TERRE DE CHANAAN OU TERRE PROMISE A ABRAHAM ET A SA POSTERITÉ...’. Map of Palestine and Sinai with large cartouche, vignette, diagram of the Isrealite encampments and inset map showing Abraham’s travels in the Near East. After designs by Nicolas Sanson published by Robert de Vaugondy 1743 [23844] 42 x 55 cm. Original outline
colour. Excellent condition. £350 Pedley 391. |
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PALESTINE:412. Mitchell, A. ‘PALESTINE & ADJACENT COUNTRIES’. Map of Israel and Lebanon with inset map of the environs of Jerusalem. Thomas and Cowperthwait in Philadelphia for Mitchell ca. 1850 [24667] 40 x 32 cm. Full original
colour. Excellent condition. £65
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PALESTINE: 413. Stanford, J. ‘(BIBLICAL REGIONS). THE HOLY LAND AND ITS BORDERS INCLUDING ANCIENT PHOENICIA, THE HAURAN AND ADJACENT DISTRICTS’. Map showing Jewish, Roman and modern divisons and topography. Archibald Fullarton ca. 1870 [25870] 40 x 50 cm. Original outline
colour. Excellent condition. £125
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SYRIA:414. Schenk, P. & Valk, G. ‘SYRIAE SIVE SORIAE NOVA ET ACCURATA
DESCRIPTIO’. Detailed map of Syria and Lebanon. Pieter Schenk & Gerard Valk ca. 1700 [22120] 43 x 51 cm. Cartouche and scale of miles
(uncoloured), the map in full original colour. Excellent condition. £275 As issued, in its original state, no later colour added to cartouches etc. From the private collection of a European aristocratic family. |
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TURKEY:415. Mercator, G. / Janssonius, J. 'NATOLIA, QUAE OLIM ASIA MINOR'. Map of Turkey with small Cyprus. Mercator/Janssonius 1651 [20551] 15 x 19 cm. Recent outline
colour. Excellent condition. £100
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TURKEY and NEAR / MIDDLE EAST:417. Thomson, J. ‘TURKEY IN ASIA’. Doublepage map of Turkey, Syria and Cyprus. Thomson 1814 [19334] 39 x 50 cm. Full original
colour. Excellent condition. £90
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TURKEY and NEAR / MIDDLE EAST:418. Reichard, C. G. ‘CHARTE DES OSMANISCHEN REICHS IN
ASIEN...’. Map of the Turkish Empire in Asia: Turkey, Cyprus, Near and Middle East and Iraq. Christian Gottlieb Reichard for Verlag des Geograph. Instituts Weimar 1817 [25837] 48 x 63 cm. Original outline
colour. Excellent condition. £175
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TURKEY - CYPRUS - PALESTINE:419. Aa, P. v. d. ‘TURQUIE EN
ASIE, SUIVANT LES NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS’. Map of Turkey, Armenia, Kurdistan, Cyprus and Palestine, with pictorial cartouche. Pieter van der Aa, Leiden 1714 [25134] 23 x 30 cm.
Uncoloured. Excellent condition. £150 Folio edition - no
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